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COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE Minutes - 11/10/2020 Unapproved CITY OF MUSKEGO COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MINUTES November 10, 2020 5:15 PM City Hall, W182 S8200 Racine Avenue CALL TO ORDER Mayor Petfalski called the meeting to order at 5:26 p.m. ROLL CALL Present: Alderpersons Wolfe, Terrence, Kapusta, Engelhardt, Kubacki, Hammel, and Madden. Also present: Public Works & Development Director Kroeger, City Attorney Warchol, and Administrative Assistant Crisp. STATEMENT OF PUBLIC NOTICE Ms. Crisp stated that the meeting was noticed in accordance with the open meeting law. APPROVAL OF AGENDA Alderperson Kubacki moved to approve. Alderperson Wolfe seconded; motion carried. APPROVAL OF MINUTES October 13, 2020: Alderperson Madden moved to approve. Alderperson Engelhardt seconded; motion carried. NEW BUSINESS Discussion regarding Idle Isle Lease with the Water Bugs Mayor Petfalski stated that originally the Water Bugs had a Lease Agreement with the City of Muskego to use the old building for concessions and payed $1 a year. In 2006, the old building was destroyed and the Water Bugs were asked to support the cost of the storage area of a new Pavilion. The WB entered into a lease agreement to spread that payment out over 10 years making monthly installments. Partway through that 10-year period the lease was extended until 2018 at a lower monthly rate; it has since been paid off. Recently, the WB asked if they could enter into a new lease with the City of Muskego to use the Pavilion at Idle Isle for storage at $1 a year. There were no objections from the Council to change the WB Lease for the storage area to $1.00/year as long as the improvements have been paid off. As there is nothing in writing stating that it was, in fact, paid in full, Alderperson Wolfe made a motion to direct Mayor Petfalski to come back if they are not current in their payments. Alderperson Engelhardt seconded; motion carried. Update on Sandy Beach Recreational Trail Bridge Mayor Petfalski explained that WE Energies took out a bridge two years ago and it wasn’t replaced at the time because of cost. Mr. Kroeger stated that WE Energies owns the trail, we use it. It is now a detour route and the trail comes to an end at both sides. To replace the bridge at that time would cost $285,000. Mayor asked him to look at options on what we could do. He and Ryan (from DPW) went to look at it. They have a vendor that could set an 84” culvert pipe for $70,000 and DPW would do the backfilling and fill it over. The two barricades that are there would be used for railings. It would be pedestrian only and WE Energies is OK with that because they can access the trail from both sides. Permits have November 10, 2020 2 been pulled with Army Corp of Eng, the DNR, and the City. We are ready to begin work now as we have time and staff to do it. We can use money from “Urban Water Drainage” fund to do the work. Alderperson Wolfe made a motion to replace bridge with culvert pipe. Alderperson Kubacki seconded; motion carried. Baseball Field Discussion Mayor Petfalski has been having discussions with the baseball organizations trying to get them to come together to form one organization so that we only have one entity to deal with. This would enable them to do their own scheduling and taking care of the field prep. In prior meeting, it was discussed replacing the three smaller diamonds at Park Arthur with turf. The cost to do this would be about $100,000 for all three. The baseball organizations would be interested in this (not yet committed) if the City would front that cost and they would pay it back over 10 years. The Council indicated no objections to working out an agreement with this yet to be created baseball organization to pay back the City for the turf upgrade for fields 1, 2, & 3 over a 10-year period. Their payments could be less than what they are paying for field prep. There would be a turf fee for groups that are not part of this organization that could be used when turf needs to be replaced. There would be a facilities use agreement with the organization as to how the scheduling would work with outside groups, etc. and many details that will have to be worked out. COMMUNICATIONS AND MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS None ADJOURNMENT Alderperson Terrence made a motion to adjourn at 5:47 p.m. Alderperson Engelhardt seconded; motion carried. Minutes recorded and transcribed by Christine Crisp.